John Lee biography
John Lee was born in London on 22nd June 1946. After schooling at St Clement Danes Grammar, he has worked all his life in bookselling and publishing. His three degrees were all part-time and self financed – BA Modern History, Birkbeck College, London; MA Social and Economic History, Birkbeck; MA War Studies, King’s College, London.
He is an Executive Officer of the British Commission for Military History; an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for First World War Studies, Birmingham University, a National Council member of the Army Records Society and a ‘rank and file’ member of the Western Front Association and the Gallipoli Association. He is (quite) well known in military history circles as a writer, lecturer and battlefield tour guide.
His first book, “A Soldier’s Life: General Sir Ian Hamilton 1853-1947”, was published by Macmillan in 2000 and Pan in 2001. “The Warlords: Hindenburg and Ludendorff” was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2005. He has written twelve chapters in collections of essays on the First World War.
Links
- John Lee's website: http://www.johnandcelialee.org.uk
How I Found the Agency
Conversations with editors at Macmillan kept referring us to Andrew Lownie as an ideal choice for our book on Churchill. Letters went out with a very basic proposal to three possible agents. One never replied at all; one said it was not for them but we ought to try Andrew Lownie; Andrew saw the potential straight away and signed us up very quickly. A good deal of care and attention has gone into perfecting the full proposal, and now the manuscript (all but complete) is available for inspection.
